Capita declared yesterday they would save a quarter of a billion pounds using generative AI and even the shareholders were like ‘I think we should put the bong down’.
I am going to disappoint SO. MANY. PEOPLE. 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/mwls-next-1-april-book
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No, I'm not going to be shilling this every day until 1 April.
I wanted to get it up so I could mention it in the Dear Abyss email announcement and the next sponsor mail.
I also want to get a "crowdfunding" mailing list set up, because not everything fits into the existing categories but I intend to crowdfund everything for the forseeable future.
@mwl I always thought Ed Mastery was kind of niche... this explains a lot.
@mwl you’re either writing “Both emacs and vi are fine, actually” or “Neither emacs nor vi are fine, actually”
I’m just trying to decide which I’d rather not see more.
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vi is the visual counterpart to ed? If so, the answer is always vi.(And
emacs is something else entirely unto itself.)...
@robert Psst, don’t try to propose a correct answer. You’re only encouraging his malice badger.
3014. Arizona Chess [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
title text: Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.
(https://xkcd.com/3014)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3014)
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4 panel comic
Two people (hat and no hair) sitting across from each other at a chess board with a chess clock on the table. A projection of the times is on the wall above them.
times left on the clock the start of each panel given first
1. 6:35 , 0:28
Hat says "It's late. I'm up a pawn, and you're out of time, it's over."
No hair replies "Ah, you're forgetting something."
2. 6:35 , 0:19
No hair continues "Did you know building straddles the Arizona border? It actually runs right through the table. You're on the Arizona side."
3. 6:35 , *beep*
No hair continues "This tournament started Saturday, November 2nd. Now it's almost 2AM on the 3rd. And there's something you should know about Arizona."
4. 6:35 , 60:07
Hat yells "What?! No! That's not how...No!!"
No hair replies "Looks like it's daylight slaying time." As they pick up a chess piece.
Powered off last VM of old network. Everything is now hosted on rented bare metal. Provided nothing breaks in the next two weeks, I'll delete that VM and migration will be done.
I'll keep one tiny VM as offsite DNS, occasional mail relay, and troubleshooting host.
LG Smart TVs, Including OLEDs, Now Show Screensaver Ads
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/26/lg-screensaver-ads
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@robert I don't know because my beloved LG TV hasn't touched the internet in 4 years.
@daringfireball Same (ATV + LG), but there is one problem -- LGs have a "Hey, LG" type listener, that try as I might cannot be disabled! And since it's offline, it produces an error ever time it accidentally gets triggered. POS
eo_XX-UTF8, but that's just a guess.